Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Sales Tips: Know the Difference Between Buyers - and Researchers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. If there’s a fit proposals are presented to Key Players who decide whether or not to buy. Bottom-up selling makes long sell cycles and lower win rates more likely.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Flaunt Your Next Steps – Sales eXchange – 137. By now you would think that there are few if any sales people who do not understand the importance of “next steps” in sales. Sales eXchange , Sales Skills , Sales Technique , Tibor Shanto. Next Steps.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Demand Generation Targets 218

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Get Your 2015 Started Right. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. To avoid starting 2015 with unqualified pipelines, consider taking a hard look at quotes or proposals more than 60 days old. Proposals, like radioactive material, have half-lives.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sales Tips: 8 Signals That Your Buyer Is Ready to Close. I’ve had several sales executives and CEOs tell me "My salespeople can’t close." If all of these items have been covered, buying should be the logical last step of a sales cycle. In my mind, a buying cycle is much like a play.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 6, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Manage Committees. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. When managing buying cycles with committees, sellers are often guilty of starting and staying with one person too long. Image courtesy of Stock Images at FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

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Buying Cycle How To Negotiation Proposal 40

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sales Tips: The Potential Benefits to an "Enterprise" View. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) study showed over 50% of sales cycles that end with sellers involved, result in buyers making “no decision.”

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Enterprise Enterprise Benefit Proposal 65

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success. Your objectives are vague.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 2, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Boost the Remainder of Your 2014. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Early in my sales management career, I was astounded by how hopeful salespeople were that had achieved 35% of their annual quota going into the fourth quarter.

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Face-to-face Negotiation Proposal Pipeline 69

Product Management University

JULY 26, 2021

Then they’ll ask you for a pricing proposal. The reality part gets back to sales qualification 101. If you can’t get solid answers to the WHAT & WHY questions early in the sales process, your demo efforts could be all for naught. Still in the feel-good stage? Then they go radio silent. ” Having fun yet?

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Proposal Decision Maker 52

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Sales Training Article: 2014 Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti at FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2013 winds down, people think about prospects for the New Year. View our updated calendar of 2014 sales training workshops.

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Collateral Negotiation Proposal Vendor 55

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Sales Tips: Suggested New Years Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. With that in mind I’d like to propose a few simple New Years resolutions for your consideration. It would seem a better term to apply to all would be buying cycles.

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B2C Margin Buying Cycle Proposal 40

Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 6, 2016

Sales Tips: The Benefits of Starting As "Column A". Pre-Internet, it was common for mid-level managers to work with a seller from a vendor to get far enough into the sales cycle to generate a bid or proposal. Sales cycles will likely be shorter when starting at high levels. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #3 - "I Just Compete with Vendors". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Making cost vs. benefit a part of every proposal maximizes the chances you won’t get the bad news of “no decision” on opportunities you felt had been sold.

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Vendor Cancellation Proposal Software 40

The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Targets vs. Metrics – Sales eXchange – 92. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Metrics , Sales Tool , Sales eXchange , execution. As with most things in sales for the infamous 80% of the 80/20 divide, their use of specific words is shaped by the leaders of their organization.

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Pipeline Twitter Hiring Top of Funnel 238

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 2, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Execute a Top-Down Selling Approach. Top-down vs. bottom-up sales approaches for complex B2B offerings are polar opposites. Much later in the sales cycle there may be attempts to call higher levels, but most sellers will struggle in their efforts to establish value during these calls.

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Vendor How To Enterprise Enterprise 40

The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Budget , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Listening , Negotiations , Objection Handling , Price , Questions , Sales Strategy , Sell Better , qualifying. Sales Success , Sales Technique. EDGE Sales Process.

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Pipeline Negotiation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 236

The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Success , Sales Tip , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales! We expect newer salespeople to be sales challenged, that is, not very effective when it comes to listening and questioning.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: No Decision Losses - The Good, Bad & Ugly. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. How long are you going to allow your sales organization to continue to lose good opportunities to No Decision before you take action? The good news?

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Decision Maker Sales Cycle Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead 40

Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face. We’ll get to individual sales objections in time.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 104

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 13, 2013

If this is the case, Gartner’s latest research indicates that many IT Sales and Marketing leaders may end up on the “endangered species” list, unless some serious realizations and changes occur sooner versus later. Although most of the sales and marketing executives may recognize the issue, change will not be easy.

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Buyer Lead Rank Strategy Marketing 90

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Lead Rank Sales Process Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 52

The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 Ways To Reduce Friction In A Cold Call – Sales eXchange – 104. Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales! Sales eXchange , Tibor Shanto. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Recently we had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Ninivaggi, the Practice Director for Sales Enablement with leading sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Proposal Buyer 86

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 18, 2016

Sales Tips: Is It Time to Update Your Sales Process and Align Your CRM? It prompted me to wonder if companies have modified their sales process milestones developed in the 90’s and imbedded them into their CRM software? Present a proposal with a detailed cost vs. benefit analysis and ask the buying committee to make a decision.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Sales Tips: 5 Ways You Could MISS Your Number This Year. This begins at the sales rep level but can become an enterprise-wide problem. Like major league hitters checking their batting average, so sales staff from reps up to SVPs focus on their YTD positions against quota. Let’s say your average sales cycle is three months.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Sage Sales Qualified Lead 40

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 28, 2016

Sales Tips: 10 Reasons Why Pre-Call Planning Is Important. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. The admission of a goal by a prospect is the catalyst, the launching pad, the beginning of the sales cycle. And what is the proposed usage scenario going to be? Enough said.

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Sales Cycle Proposal Conversion Maximizer 40

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and a quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face. We’ll get to individual sales objections in time.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 14, 2013

Sales Training Article: Establishing Value. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company When I started my selling career, my manager insisted that each proposal contained a cost vs. benefit analysis. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Training Decision Maker Buyer Proposal 45

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Sales Tips: 3 Mistakes to Avoid with Sequence of Events. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. Despite the fact that every sale appears to be unique, there are many commons steps in the buying process that have a high probability of recurring. Need some help to increase sales?

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Vendor Face-to-face Buyer Sales Cycle 40

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? A survey by Sales Benchmark Index showed 52% of sales cycles driven by sellers result in no decision. For large opportunities, negotiating a Sequence of Events with the buying committee that shows the necessary steps leading up to a proposal.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: "It's Deja Vu All Over Again" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Yogi Berra's quote brings to mind the obligatory pipeline review managers do with their salespeople toward the end of the month. Need some help with your sales performance?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. Conclusion.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Buying Cycle Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Sales Training Article: Why Are Your Deals Bleeding Margin? By John Kenney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) This blog post is for those who sometimes find their sales teams negotiating against themselves, closing dirty deals to make quota, or finding their margin-rich transactions disintegrate at the end of quarter.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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